Just started on one of two guitars I'll be bringing with me to Healdsburg this summer. Being a show guitar, I thought I'd do something a little bit different. I spent a few weeks in Arizona over the holidays and was lucky enough to visit Frank Lloyd Wright's workshop/school/home Taliesin West. I really enjoyed seeing his various screens and windows and thought it would be interesting to try and incorporate that type of design into a guitar. I've also been thinking about Art Deco style recently and with those two thoughts in mind I decided to just go for it and started an inlay on the back....
Here's my design roughly drawn out...
I thought it was a bit more pleasing to place it closer to the top than vertically centered. The space above the design is in the golden ratio to the space below.
I made a simple jig to help rout straight lines...
And here it is with just router cuts...
And after some careful chisel work...
I eventually settled on gluing in the outer rosewood strips first, then fitting in maple strips afterwards...
That's it for now, more coming soon!
Mike